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In addition to the wheel chocks and jackstands, I use the floor jack itself as a safety backup.
If only jacking 1 end, wheel chocks on non-lifted axle, jack up car, place both jacks under, and slowly lower onto jackstands until they bear the load. Then I'll re-angle the jack into a position where it's not in the way and pump it up a little so that it is a backup that is barely taking any load. If jacking both ends, same thing, but with 4 jackstands and 2 floorjacks in backup mode total (assuming the front sub-frame or rear diff jack locations do not block what I am working on).
If only jacking 1 end, wheel chocks on non-lifted axle, jack up car, place both jacks under, and slowly lower onto jackstands until they bear the load. Then I'll re-angle the jack into a position where it's not in the way and pump it up a little so that it is a backup that is barely taking any load. If jacking both ends, same thing, but with 4 jackstands and 2 floorjacks in backup mode total (assuming the front sub-frame or rear diff jack locations do not block what I am working on).
